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Q5® Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase

Catalog # Concentration Size List Price Quantity Your Price
M0493L 2000 units/ml 500 units $833.00
$749.70
M0493S 2000 units/ml 100 units $208.00
$187.20
Catalog # Size List Price Your Price
M0493L 500 units $833.00
$749.70
M0493S 100 units $208.00
$187.20
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Q5® High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase sets a new standard for both fidelity and robust performance. With the highest fidelity amplification available (~280 times higher than Taq), Q5 results in ultra-low error rates. Q5 is composed of a novel polymerase that is fused to the processivity-enhancing Sso7d DNA binding domain, improving speed, fidelity and reliability of performance.

Working with uracil-containing DNA templates or using dUTP? Learn about Q5U Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase (NEB #M0515).

  • Highest fidelity amplification (~280X higher than Taq)
  • Ultra-low error rates
  • Superior performance for a broad range of amplicons (from high AT to high GC)
  • Also available: Q5 standalone polymerase (NEB #M0491) and master mix formats (NEB #M0492, M0494)
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Q5® Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase is a high-fidelity, thermostable, hot start DNA polymerase with 3´→ 5´ exonuclease activity, fused to a processivity-enhancing Sso7d domain to support robust DNA amplification. The addition of an aptamer-based inhibitor allows room temperature reaction setup. With an error rate ~280-fold lower than that of Taq DNA Polymerase, Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase is ideal for cloning and can be used for long or difficult amplicons. Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase is supplied with an optimized buffer system that allows robust amplification regardless of GC content. The 5X Q5 Reaction Buffer contains 2 mM Mg++ at final (1X) reaction concentrations and is recommended for most routine applications. For GC-rich targets (≥ 65% GC), amplification can be improved by the addition of the 5X Q5 High GC Enhancer. Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase is unlike typical, lower fidelity PCR enzymes. To determine the optimal annealing temperatures for a given set of primers, use of the NEB Tm Calculator is highly recommended.

M0493
Amplification of a variety of human genomic amplicons from low to high GC content using Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase. All reactions were set up at room temperature, conducted using 30 cycles of amplification and visualized by microfluidic LabChip® analysis.

 

Product Source
An E. coli strain that carries the Q5 High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase gene.
Reagents Supplied

The following reagents are supplied with this product:

NEB # Component Name Component # Stored at (°C) Amount Concentration
  Q5® Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase M0493SVIAL -20 1 x 0.05 ml 2,000 units/ml
  Q5® Reaction Buffer Pack B9027SVIAL -20 1 x 1.5 ml 5 X
  Q5® High GC Enhancer B9028AVIAL -20 1 x 1.5 ml 5 X
  Q5® Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase M0493LVIAL -20 1 x 0.25 ml 2,000 units/ml
  Q5® Reaction Buffer Pack B9027SVIAL -20 4 x 1.5 ml 5 X
  Q5® High GC Enhancer B9028AVIAL -20 4 x 1.5 ml 5 X
Application Features
  • High-specificity PCR 
  • High-fidelity PCR
  • Cloning
  • Long or Difficult Amplification
  • High-throughput PCR

Properties & Usage

Unit Definition

One unit is defined as the amount of enzyme that will incorporate 10 nmol of dNTP into acid insoluble material in 30 minutes at 74°C.

Heat Inactivation

No

Unit Assay Conditions

25 mM TAPS-HCl (pH 9.3 @ 25°C), 50 mM KCl, 2 mM MgCl2, 1 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 200 μM dNTPs including [3H]-dTTP and 15 nM primed M13 DNA.

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Citations
Additional Citations
  • Stoczynska-Fidelus E, Och W, Rieske P, Bienkowski M, Banaszczyk M, Winiecka-Klimek M, Zieba J, Janik K, Rosiak K, Treda C, Stawski R, Radomiak-Zaluska A, Piaskowski S (2014) Spontaneous in vitro senescence of glioma cells confirmed by an antibody against IDH1R132H Anticancer Res 34(6), 2859-67.PubMedID: 24922649
  • Currin A, Swainston N, Day PJ, Kell DB (2014) SpeedyGenes: an improved gene synthesis method for the efficient production of error-corrected, synthetic protein libraries for directed evolution Protein Eng Des Sel 27(9), 273-80.PubMedID: 25108914, DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzu029
  • Toru Takahashi, Ken Maeda, Tadaki Suzuki, Aki Ishido, Toru Shigeoka, Takayuki Tominaga, Toshiaki Kamei, Masahiro Honda, Daisuke Ninomiya, Takenori Sakai, Takanori Senba, Shozo Kaneyuki, Shota Sakaguchi, Akira Satoh, Takanori Hosokawa, Yojiro Kawabe, Shintaro Kurihara, Koichi Izumikawa, Shigeru Kohno, Taichi Azuma, Koichiro Suemori, Masaki Yasukawa, Tetsuya Mizutani, Tsutomu Omatsu, Yukie Katayama, Masaharu Miyahara, Masahito Ijuin, Kazuko Doi, Masaru Okuda, Kazunori Umeki, Tomoya Saito, Kazuko Fukushima, Kensuke Nakajima, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Hideki Tani, Shuetsu Fukushi, Aiko Fukuma, Momoko Ogata, Masayuki Shimojima, Noriko Nakajima, Noriyo Nagata, Harutaka Katano, Hitomi Fukumoto, Yuko Sato, Hideki Hasegawa, Takuya Yamagishi, Kazunori Oishi, Ichiro Kurane, Shigeru Morikawa, Masayuki Saijo (2013) The First Identification and Retrospective Study of Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Japan J Inf Dis 209(6), 816-827.PubMedID: 24231186
Publications
  • Juliane Krebes, Richard D. Morgan, Boyke Bunk, Cathrin Spröer, Khai Luong, Raphael Parusel, Brian P. Anton, Christoph König, Christine Josenhans, Jörg Overmann, Richard J. Roberts, Jonas Korlach, Sebastian Suerbaum (2013). The complex methylome of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori Nucleic Acids Res. 42(4), 2415-2432.PubMedID: 24302578, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1201
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This product is licensed for research and commercial use from Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., under U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,627,424, 7,541,170, 7,670,808, 7,666,645, and corresponding patents in other countries. No rights are granted for use of the product for Digital PCR or real-time PCR applications, with the exception of quantification in Next Generation Sequencing workflows.

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